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Set of twelve matching square buttons, black with golden "X" motif
Object/Artifact
Twelve identical molded buttons, square with rounded corners and a low pyramidal (four-sided faceted) top rising to a central point, the whole surface finely ribbed/striated. The body is black. Across the center of each top is a raised golden "X" (a crossed-bar motif with a beaded/nubbed texture). The reverse is recessed, with a central raised boss, four radiating channels, and a small central self-shank for sewing (no thread holes through the face). One button is shown front, edge, and back.
2025.1.266
Purchased by Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez.
The Cabrera Arús family collection
Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez collecition
2025.1
1980s
Maker: Unidentified. No maker's name, backmark, or country stamp on the face, edge, or back. Date: Circa 1980s (estimate, attributed; tentative).
Plastic
Materials: Molded plastic, semi-translucent red (specific polymer undetermined — e.g., polystyrene or acrylic). Golden "X" crossbar with a metallic finish (gilt-metal or gold-colored applied element; anchoring visible in the recessed back). Technique: Injection-molded plastic body with molded self-shank and ribbed surface texture; applied or inset golden "X" crossbar.
Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez
owner
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
acquisition